Monday, January 11, 2016

Looking back, Pittsburgh Pirates 2010 Draft.

With the DFA of Tony
Sanchez the Pirates now have released or moved every player from the 2009
draft. Of the first 10 rounds of that draft the most successful players are Brock Holt,
Vic Black and
Tony Sanchez.
I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the next few drafts to
see how our first 10
rounderss look.

Round 1: Jameson Taillon (RHP) came into pro ball hot and heavy and from
2011 to 2013 pitched a
lot of quality games getting lots of innings but not winning many. His
minors career ERA is 3.72,
WHIP 1.215 and SO/9 at 8.4. While those stats don't shout future Cy
Young winner, he did all this
before his age 22 season. He ended up getting Tommy
John surgery causing him to miss an entire
2014 season, starting pitching workouts in 2015 but got injured again.
Jameson hasn't pitched a
live pro game since 2013 fall league. Despite this, he is still a top
prospect and what the coaches
and scouts saw in 2015 must have looked good because he is still a top MLB
prospect with hopes of
pitching in the MLB this season.

Round 2: Stetson Allie (RHP) Stetson didn't make it long as a pitcher. 17
games of A ball and a
7.76 ERA. Normally a pitcher like this would be a bust but the odd thing
about Stetson is that he
can hit. His best season between A, A+ ball he hit .277/.378/.438 with
21HRs. He now plays first
base and some outfield and has earned a spring training invite for 2016.

Round 3: Mel
Rojas Jr. (CF) Mel made his way back to AAA last year but probably
won't see any
MLB time with the Pirates due to the players currently on the roster. He
hits for a fair average and
is pretty quick; he fell off the Pirates top 30 prospect list this past
season.

Round 4: Nick Kingham (RHP) Nick has been doing everything pretty well.
Had a rough few games
in AAA last season but still in the top 20 pirates prospects. He is
expected to see some MLB time in
2017, Currently he is rehabbing from surgery

Round 5: Tyler Waldron (RHP) Waldron saw about 100 games in the Pirates
organization including a
short trip to spring, after 2012 he was converted to mostly relief and
failed to produce at any level.
After the 2014 season the Cardinals claimed him of waivers. Over 46 games
and 76 innings with
Memphis he had a 4.74 ERA.

Round 9: Brandon
Cumpton (RHP) of all these players, Brandon is the only one who has
seen MLB
time for the Pirates. An Injury claimed his 2015 and is currently rehabing
hoping to be back in the
pen or rotation sometime in 2016

Round 10: Zack Weiss also went Unsigned

The 2010 Draft was pretty strong for the pirates, though injury has slowed
down Taillon, Kingham
and Cumpton they should be fully ready by the end of 2016. Rojas Jr.
probably would be in the
outfield if it were not for Polanco, Marte and McCutchen and Stetson will
get his chance this spring
to show he can play first base at a higher level. Only one of the six players signed is no longer with
the team the four players that went unsigned also have not seen any MLB time as of yet.